A Peck of Gold

I Heart My Blog

I love this blog. It's everything I always wanted to do with my website but couldn't. I've spent a lot of time reading other's blogs, and figuring out for myself what I want to do, what this blog means to me.

There is an art to blog browsing in itself. It's a process of weeding out the bad, and gleaning the good. There are so many people out there with opinions different than my own. What I love about the open forum for blogs is that I get to hear from people that I would not normally encounter in my life. We tend to congregate with people who are like us - I'm not being critical, that's just human nature. So, we tend to circulate the same themes amongst ourselves. I don't mean that we're all stagnant or unoriginal... It's more that I enjoy the chance to hear (and sometimes disagree with) new ideas. It challenges me to defend my own opinions, to form a more definitive outline for my idealogy and philosophy of life. As silly or insignificant as a blog may seem, it's actually having more of an impact on me than I expected. I think I blog for myself, to have an outlet for personal creativity and to remember that before I was a wife, a mother, a friend - that I was just me. Just Shannon. It's so easy to lose sense of self in the many roles that life requires of us.

Well, on that note, I'll say goodnite. I leave you with a pretty awesome haiku. I didn't write it, but maybe I'll try my hand at a few and see about putting them up.

Covered with the flowers,
Instantly I'd like to die
In this dream of ours!

~Etsujin.